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I first noticed a couple of africans in my tank had sunken bellies at the beginning of april. I have since treated the tank with levamisole, metro in the water, metro in their food and epsom salts. I have been doing 70% w/c weekly with a 20% mid week w/c as well and I have upped the feeding.

Everyone seems to be feeding well and showing good colour but the 2 males i was worried about just arent gaining weight. My taiwan reef is the worst. I didnt feed for 4 days while dosing with metro and fed lightly for 5 days after. He was looking pretty bad. He is looking a little better but still has a really sunken belly. I don't think i am under feeding as the other fish look good, if it was internal parasites i would have thought that the levamisole and metro combined with the epsom salts would have taken care of that.

Aggression is mimimal, bit of chasing but know one is cowering in the corner. I am at a loss as to why they arent gaining weight. They have been on normal feeding for a week or so, whats my next move?

I have a 2ft 70ish L growout with a few juvie yellows that i could put the taiwan in but he is feeding well so i dont know if moving him is gonna help.

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Have you tried prazi yet? Levamisole is a wormer but only treats a few different types of worm and as I suggested metro wouldn't be much use in this case, metro is usually used in cases where the fish is pooing white and they usually go off their food etc.

My first suggestion would be praziquental, I would move one (or both but one in a breeding net so they don't fight) affected fish into the 70L tank so you can treat them and see improvement and not bomb out your big tank with drugs that might not work.

If prazi doesn't work then you could also try fenbendazole.

Biggest problem with these sorts of things is there are tons of different worms and stuff that can cause the symptoms but drugs are only effective against certain worms. I suggested the levamisole because its easy and mild but now you have to try the other options, some people suggest that you can collect some poo and get it examined and identify the worms from that but you would have to find someone with sufficient experience to do that.

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Aggression is mimimal, bit of chasing but know one is cowering in the corner.

aggression and dominance can be very subtle sometimes with fish

it doesn't have to involve physical contact and can just be level fish swim at or body posture in the tank

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More food no improvement, i have even removed the rusties so there is less competition. I think i will set up the other 2fter and take the taiwan and litho out and treat with prazi. If it is aggression then at least they will have a tank to themselves, i,m not sure it is as the taiwan is top dog and is showing good colour.

Will suss the vet out and see if prazi is prescription or over the counter. Its droncit i'm after not drontal?. Hoping its over the counter as i got stung buying the metro. Hollwoods sell bottles of it so hopefully i can get some from a vet over the counter.

Damn this is frustrating.

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Can anyone give me a good dosing regime for droncit. I am getting some 50mg tab, so 2x tablets for 40L, there seems to be a whole lot of different dosing regimes on the net so has anyone got 1 that works well for them.

I was going for 3 doses over 3 days, should i be doing w/c before redosing? and can i feed during treatment, i dont want to be starving them unnecessarily as i need them to gain weight not lose weight. Cheers for your help

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